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No, 597,417. Patented Jan. 18, 1898.

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HENRY HUTGHINS, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA; ELLEN HUTCI-IINS ADMIN- ISTRATRIX OF SAID HENRY HUTGHINS, DECEASED.

PlLLOW-SHAM HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,417, dated January 18, 1898. Application filed April 22,1897. Serial No. 633,216. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY Hnronnvs, a citizen of the United states, residing at Council Blufis, county of Pot-tawattamie, State of Iowa, have invented a now, simple, and useful Pillow-Sham Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in adjustable pillow-sham holders in which .a light frame of wood and wire partially or wholly covered with cloth, in combination with light-wire extension-pieces at each end of said frame, which pass through and engage with clamps formed of wire which support the same.

The objects of my improvement and invention are, first, to provide a support for pillow-Shams both when bed is being used and when it is not and which in either instance will hold the pillow-Shams fully spread out in all positions without partially folding or wrinkling the same; second, to afford a simple means of changing the shame from a position covering the pillows when bed is not in use to a position where they do not cover the pillows when bed is in use, which means of changing said shams willnot fold, wrinkle, soil, or disarrange them; third, a simple and easy means of adjustment of pillow-sham holder to beds of different sizes within rea-- sonable limits without altering the length of the frame or removing, folding, or changing in any way the pillow-Shams; fourth, adj ustable clamps made of a single piece of wire in connection with a small piece of tin, leather, rubber, or cloth to prevent abrasion or scratching of varnished or painted surfaces and adapted to both wood and iron bedsteads, which clamps are so formed as to be easily placed in position by a simple push or springing of the wire clamp. These objects are attained by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the billowsham holder attached to the head board of the bedstead, the bedposts of which are marked w and :12. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the device when the pillow-sham holder is raised in a position for the bed to be used. Fig. 3 represents the sham-holder when down and covering the pillow y, the frame resting against the bed-posts cc and 9; and on the bedding 2. Figs. 4- and 5 are the respective views of the Wire L-shaped piece 0 in detail, showing fastening and connection to the middle bar a of the frame. Figs. 6 and 7 are two views of spring-clamp forbed-posts of rectangular cross-section, and Figs. 8, 9, and 10 are the several views of spring-clamps for bed-posts of round cross-section for iron bedsteads.

This frame a bi) is the length and width of one or two pillow-shame, as desired, and the bars a, Z), and b may he covered with cloth or cloth-paper, or other suitable material may bestretched over the whole frame and fastoned to bars 5 and b, to which in either case the pillow-shame maybe pinned or fastened. The middle bar a is grooved on the front side of sufficient depth to allow the L-shaped piece 0 to be evenly buried therein, and wire staples ffffare driven in oversaid L-shaped piece a, which enables said L-shaped piece 0 to turn easilyabout one of the limbs, the details of which are shown in Figs. 4. and 5, which are the two respective views of the L-shaped piece 0, attached to a short piece of the end of the middle bar a, as aforesaid. While the L- shaped piece 0 is free to revolve about the axis of its plain limb, it may be also drawn out or pushed into the groove and staples in the bar a for a considerable distance, thus lengthen ing or shortening the distance between the eyes of e and e, hereinafter referred to more particularly, so that the sham-holder can be easily adjusted to fit any bedstead within certain limits for a frame of given size. A pin or tack Z is placed in the bottom of the groove in the bar a and projects up in said groove, so that the limb of the. L-shaped piece 0, having the loop, will never come in contact with the shams on the frame a Z; b or with the wires 61 d of said frame.

The L-shaped piece 0 is formed of one piece of wire, and at the extremity of one limb a loop is formed in a plane at right angles with the other limb of the L-shaped piece 0, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. This loop may be sprung open at the upper end, allowing the loop .9 of the wire clamps e or the wire-clamp h i j k, as shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 10, to slip in, the eye of which clamps can. move some distance in said loops 5.

' are shown in Figs. 6 and 7, resp.ectively,is

made of a single piece of wire, with coils at The wire clarn'pe, the two views of which I g is caught in, compressed, and firmly held in Figs. 6 and 7.

in place between the folds of wire, as shown This cloth, leather, or rub- :ber extends below the clamp when the latter is in position, so that the loop in the limb of i the L-shaped piece 0 never comes in contact I with the bed-posts x and x.

As shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 10, a clamp with the loop s,,to be used on bedsteads with onto the iron bed-post of round section by removing the ring or loop j'itlld springing open the wires k 70 to admit the said bed-post I parallel to h, then allowing said wires to spring back and replacing the loop j, thus by in the sector of a circle whose center is in one of the loops 8 of the clamps 6'- and whose arc is represented by dotted line If u, Fig. 3, while the frame a I) Z) moveson the axis of the other limb of the L-shaped piece 0, with the pillowshams facing the same way in all positions of the frame, as shown by the dotted line w i), Fig. 3. Thus the bars of the frame band I) may be brought close to the headboard, as shown in Fig. 2, in which position the loop in the L-shaped pieces 0 and 0 allows the whole frame a b b, with L-shaped pieces 0 and c, to drop down the length of the loop in the L-shaped piece 0, so that the ends of the bar" dfall from u to: r, Fig. 3, thus holding the frame Ct 17 b and parts attachedin a vertical position above pillows, against the headboard of the bed, and out of :the way. By lifting the frame the'lengthof loops in the L-shaped pieces 0 and c and reversing the movement above described the frame a b b, with pillowshams attached, will cover the pillows, as

' shown in Fig. 3. 'I do not claim that pillow-sham holders which hold pillow-Shams in two positions and which: have adjustable frames and clamps have not been made prior to my invention, and I do not therefore claim such combination fully and completely; but

I do olaimand wish to secure by Letters 'Patent- I 1. The combination in a frame for a'pillowsham holder, of 7 three bars, a, b, and b, all held in a position parallel to each other by three or more transverse wires,,d, d, d; the middle bar a, being grooved lengthwise on one side with the staples, f, f, f, f, and f, f, f, 'f, driven in said bar, a, over said groove, and the L-shaped pieces a and (2, each formed of a single piece of wire, having a loop in one limb in, a'plane at right angles to the plain limb; said plain limb extending into the groove and beneath thest-aples f, f, f, f, and

.f, f, f, f, respectively; all substantially as set forth and for the purposes described.

- 2. The combination in a pillow-sham holder, of a frame of three parallel bars, a, Z) and b, with three or more transverse wires, 62 (Z (Z d,

the said middle bar, a, being grooved lengthwise on one side; having the staples, ffff, driven in the middle bar, a, over said groove, and with the pin, Z, driven in the bottom of the groove in the bar, a, and projecting up into said groove; and the L-shaped piece, c, formed of a single piece of wire, having a loop in one limb formed in a plane at right angles to the other limb; a wire clamp e, having a loop, 3, and a piece of cloth, leather or rubber shield, g, held in the folds of the wire forming said clamp; all connected and arranged for operation as described and specified.

HENRY HUTCHINS.

lVitnesses:

HALE S. I-IUToHINs, AGNES G. HUTOHINS. 

